groff 1.09
An implementation of troff, nroff, pic, tbl, man, ms, mm macros, etc.
- Contributed by
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Tom Kelly
- Obtained from
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ftp.uu.net:/packages/gnu/groff-1.09.tar.gz
- Restrictions
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GNU Public License
- Description
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Still the document production system of champions. :-)
- Productivity
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Most complete, freely available implementation of troff and friends.
- Safety
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Very widely used.
I've been using it since version 1.05.
- Work Planned
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No, although I usually try to keep up to date with the official
released version.
- Documentation
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Comes with man pages and descriptions of differences with AT&T troff.
A troff manual is useful.
- Verification
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Test instructions are included in the INSTALL script.
How to get the source
To get a copy of the source sent to your Mosaic client in tar
format
click here.
Note that all this source is configured to be installed under
/usr/local/contrib.
To build it for a different location, rerun the configure script
with the appropriate prefix argument.
The script configure-sco shows a working invocation of configure.
Note that for SCO C++ 3.1.1, you must edit the Makefile to turn optimization
off (OPTIMIZE=).
Also note that you may have to invoke make with a minimal environment:
env - make.